5 Ways To Get and Stay Creative in 2018
I love this time of year. Another year is gone and it’s time to hit the reset button, apply learned lessons and set some goals for the next 12 months. Mine all have to do with staying creative. Here’s how I plan to do it.
Sit with the Creator
If you’ve listened to the podcast you know what an impact regular, intentional worship, reading and listening time has had on my daily life. Shocking, I know. Still, it is at the top of my list again. I want to have much to give, but I’ve learned everything that’s worth giving comes from God.
Everything that’s worth giving comes from God.
Stay Healthy
Mental, spiritual and physical health are often deeply intertwined and I can usually draw some pretty straight lines between my daily habits and my level of creativity. Basic exercise and healthy rhythms keep the mind and heart fresh. The holidays have been great but I’ve got too many ideas that need to be fleshed out to sit around and watch Netflix all the time. Speaking of ideas…
Simplify
Like most musicians, I can be pretty scatterbrained. Simplifying my plans into actionable steps keeps my creative juices flowing. Dr. Leo Marvin was right, it’s all about baby steps.
Trust the Process
Nobody feels brilliant all the time. Creativity usually comes in waves. Rather than fret and worry, trust the rhythm. Just make sure you’re ready to catch that wave when it hits again.
I can usually draw some pretty straight lines between my daily habits and my level of creativity.
Keep Learning
Learning stokes the fires of creativity and this year I’m going to take advantage of my own website and learn to play the drums. They’ve always been such a mystery to me but with the breakdowns on Worship Artistry I’m able to wrap my head around some of the ideas. I’ve already been through a couple lessons and I’m fired up to keep going.
Conclusion
I hope you have a creative year and that we at Worship Artistry are able to support you in the ways we can. We’re cheering you on.
5 Ways To Get and Stay Creative in 2018
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My Goals
I want to write 4 new songs this year.
I want to make specific, intentional contact with a team member every week and let them know how much they mean to me.
I want to grow our worship choir to 45 members.
I figured writing this down where other people can see it might help me feel more ready to pursue it. Thanks for the website. It's awesome.
Those are awesome goals
And writing them down makes them much more achievable. I especially love #2.
My goals
I want to write a love song to my wife (this was her one wish when I picked up the guitar).
I want to learn to play lead this year (only played rhythm and only been playing for 22 months)
I am currently putting together an acoustic worship set for our church staff and their families. Join me in prayer that God ordains that, equips us and doesn't let the devil distract us from pouring back into our church family
Consider yourself joined.
I'm a actually working on a course that will help acoustic players to transition to lead so keep a lookout for that.
Looking forward to this. I
Looking forward to this. I have just this week started the transition from acoustic to electric and I am desperately trying to stop playing electric like an acoustic.
The plan. Practice more than
The plan. Practice more than what I need for Sunday! Polish what I know and add to it :) God bless!
Practice more and focus on dyads/triads
My latest focus in practice is learning sets of dyads and triads. Picked up one of those rubber stamps so I can diagram the fingering positions. Generally you can play one dyad ( triad ) over the I and vim chords, one over the IV and iim and the third one for V and iiim ( or iiim7 ). This really helps to get out of the way of those filling up the low/mid range frequencies etc.
Oh, here's a practice aid that Fender is offering free for MAC and PC:
https://pro.riffstation.com/download/